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I read this book years ago. It was given to me by a young black man who was working to change the attitudes of white people. However, I was a young white woman and he knocked on my apartment door and asked to come in and talk about Civil Rights. It was 1964. I was a senior in high school. I asked him to come in. He did. We sat on the couch in the living room and he told me about the Civil Rights movement. I listened for at least a half an hour or more. The poor guy shook like an earthquake during this 1/2 hour. I sat and just listened. I have never learned so much in 1/2 hour in my life. I will always remember that event. He does not know that he changed my life and my attitudes toward everything with his courage. He could have been accused of almost anything by accepting my invitation into my apartment. He was a wonderful teacher. He may have been 20 years old or so. I wish like hell I had asked him his name because I think that I would love to know who he was. To me, he was the Civil Rights movement. When we finished talking, he gave me the book "Nigger" so that I could read it. I did. I still have it. Of course, when my mother came home, she was shocked that I let him in. She said, "You could have been raped!", but I wasn't and that made a huge difference in the way I thought about how people treat each other. Also, I would like to meet Dick Gregory. He was a good comedian in his day. Read the book, it is a time capsule. Think of the courage it took to knock on a door and talk to a white girl. Amen.

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Richard "Dick" Gregory was an American civil rights activist, social critic, writer, entrepreneur, comedian, motivational speaker, author and actor. He became the first black comedian to successfully cross over to white audiences.